His book, Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey (University of Texas Press, 2023), looks at how a widespread religious ritual became increasingly medicalized, drawing partly on the author’s own ...

In the uncommon ritual, the mohel (or rabbi performing the circumcision) uses his mouth to draw blood away from the circumcision wound. While in the past this has helped limit complications from ...

Tim and Gabrielle Groth said their son, Cole, underwent the circumcision at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital in Manhattan, where he was born on March 31. Days after Cole's ...